Author Archives: libhart
2013 is here. August since the last post. So what happened since then you might ask. I’m now at 8 hives, 4 hives + a nuc here at the house and 3 hives down at the alfalfa. My plan was really for 10 hives, 8 + 2 nucs. I lost one hive, more on that […]
So I’m sitting on a pile of honey. It won’t go bad of course, but what am I possibly going to do with it all? Sell it is what. First I needed a label. I found some nice ones at onlinelabels.com. One is an oval with a cut-off top and bottom that was actually listed […]
The summer’s burning daylight and I’m already beginning to think about pre-winter mite treatments, but I did a quick look-through last night on the hives here at the house and figured I’d write a quick post. I had 8 supers full of comb that I had extracted and I then put back on the 4 hives here […]
I took off work on June 19th to pull supers and extract. Jim allowed me to bring all my honey and use his extractor, knife, and lots of nice other facilities. I acquired some nice food grade buckets at a local bakery and restaurant, and mounted a Maxant honey gate on one of them. I […]
May 2012 was quite the month which only partly explains why I haven’t written in so long. Some observations and results for May: As I predicted somewhere along the way, this year was incredible for swarms. I read that some old-timers said it hasn’t been this good in 20 years. Every single hive at the […]